ARE millennials really different from preceding generations? Bartleby tends to be cynical about such claims, recalling how the youthful idealism of his own peers was tamed by parenthood and the need to pay the mortgage.

The fourth and final instalment in our project to build a reading list of great liberal thinkers. The definition of liberalism has long been the source of disagreement. The tension between its various strands—such as American progressivism, libertarianism and the classical tradition

A SPECTRE is haunting workers—the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). The fear is that smart computer programs will eliminate millions of jobs, condemning a generation to minimum-wage drudgery or enforced idleness. Never mind the robots, fear the software.

It is often a nightmare of many investors that just as they become comfortable navigating around complex property and share transactions they are confronted by a monstrous morass of legal documentation so lengthy, wordy and complex that it brings to mind the Joseph Joubert quote: When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. It’s enough to make anyone throw up their hands in frustration and head for the hills.